Marginalized by previous antics, Sam Shephard is on the bottom
rung of detective training in Dunedin, and her boss makes sure she
knows it. She gets involved in her first homicide investigation,
when a university student is murdered in the Botanic Gardens, and
Sam soon discovers this is not an isolated incident. There is a
chilling prospect of a predator loose in Dunedin, and a very strong
possibility that the deaths are linked to a visiting circus.
Determined to prove herself, Sam throws herself into an
investigation that can have only one ending.